Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Fellow cycling blogger Don Jones' father Donald Jones Sr was one of the 155 survivors from the US Airways Flight 1549 that crashed into frigid Hudson Bay on Friday (see a video of the crash coverage). Its a miraculous story considering how the pilot landed that Airbus with such precision onto the water without any catastrophe. Don, who's an award winning TV news anchor for NBC 17 Today, remarks this is the best news he's ever covered.

Suggestion to Don : When the splurge (bloody goo) of the birds that went into the engines have been taken to the feather lab at the Smithsonian Institute and identified for its species, you should probably host a community cycling ride with the name of that bird to remember this miraculous occasion.

A small secret : On late Friday after the world knew of the flight accident and that everyone aboard was safe, I emailed the pilot Cpt. Chesley Sullenberger a thank you note for his professionalism, even though I had nothing personal to do with the incident. Now with Don's news, it turns out that the exercise was pretty worthwhile after all.